Shrygue
September 22nd, 2008, 19:02
via Eurogamer (http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=242912)
Valve's Gabe Newell once commented that World of Warcraft wasn't so much a game as a platform in its own right. Well, he's been proven right by respected puzzle game developer PopCap - it has decided to release its classic, Bejeweled, as a free game-within-a-game for World of Warcraft.
PopCap has re-written Bejeweled as an "add-on" - a small plug-in program for WOW, normally used by the community to modify the game's user interface.
There are some details on PopCap's site (http://www7.popcap.com/promos/wow/), and WOW Insider (http://www.wowinsider.com/2008/09/20/wow-insiders-preview-of-popcap-games-bejeweled-addon/) has some hands-on impressions of the beta version of Bejeweled for WOW.
As well as Classic and Timed modes, the game features a special Flight mode which pops up automatically every time you take an in-game flight, challenging you to score as high as you can before you land. The game also fires up automatically if you die ahead of your friends during a raid.
Bejeweled also features its own achievements and and "skill system", mirroring WOW's.
Bejeweled for WOW will be released, for free, on PopCap's site later this week.
Valve's Gabe Newell once commented that World of Warcraft wasn't so much a game as a platform in its own right. Well, he's been proven right by respected puzzle game developer PopCap - it has decided to release its classic, Bejeweled, as a free game-within-a-game for World of Warcraft.
PopCap has re-written Bejeweled as an "add-on" - a small plug-in program for WOW, normally used by the community to modify the game's user interface.
There are some details on PopCap's site (http://www7.popcap.com/promos/wow/), and WOW Insider (http://www.wowinsider.com/2008/09/20/wow-insiders-preview-of-popcap-games-bejeweled-addon/) has some hands-on impressions of the beta version of Bejeweled for WOW.
As well as Classic and Timed modes, the game features a special Flight mode which pops up automatically every time you take an in-game flight, challenging you to score as high as you can before you land. The game also fires up automatically if you die ahead of your friends during a raid.
Bejeweled also features its own achievements and and "skill system", mirroring WOW's.
Bejeweled for WOW will be released, for free, on PopCap's site later this week.